Securing Freedom: Digital Security for Organizers

The vast system of U.S. surveillance will soon be in the hands of a President who has pledged to violate our constitutional and human rights. Now more than ever, organizers need to act to protect their digital security so we can continue to work for democratic social change. Join this webinar to learn practical steps for securing your data and communications, both individually and collectively. Together we can ensure our movements are safe enough to take risks and strong enough to win.

Featured guest:Harlo Holmes

Director of Newsroom Digital Security, Freedom of the Press Foundation

This webinar is free for MAG-Net members and $50 for non-members. The Media Action Grassroots Network (MAG-Net) mobilizes a media justice movement to end racism and poverty. Member organizations amplify the voices of impacted communities to win communication rights and power. To find out about membership contact angella@mediajustice.org.

Claims today that the government alleged Manning had not told truth in her 2013 trial about WikiLeaks are fake news. The government made no such claim in court. The false headline was made by the Daily Beast which has now retracted the headline. gizmodo.com/chelsea-…

The mayor in a mayoral control school system saying that his elite schools are "broken" is... well... its sort of like Trump tweeting that the TSA frisking a child is a "not a good situation." twitter.com/madinato…

@rachelweinerwp Buried the lede: "Washington Post invents telepathy". To claim that a state official "thinks" something, when they have merely "said" something, is to imply that the official is honest, when that has yet to be established.

"For most of her 20s, she lived paycheck to paycheck. She paid $200 a month for an Affordable Care Act health insurance plan with a huge deductible. Like 44 million other Americans, she had student-loan debt." @AOC speaks for the reality of my generation. bit.ly/2To3qwj

New: Facebook confirmed today that it stored "hundreds of millions" of passwords in plaintext, exposing them to employees.
Facebook says no one outside the company got them, so technically this is not a data breach.
motherboard.vice.com…

If the Trump administration can prosecute an Australian journalist in EU for publishing 'secrets' about the US gov, Saudi can prosecute a Turkish journalists in Ankara & Russia can prosecute an American journalists in Washington for doing the same. defend.wikileaks.org…

Last year, I woke up to organize w/ my community & waitressed to make ends meet. Today, staggeringly, I woke up to this.
I believe in an America where all things are possible. Where a basic, dignified life isn’t a dream, but a norm.
That’s why I got up then,& why I get up now. twitter.com/time/sta…